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The Thorn Birds is a best selling romantic novel by Australian novelist, Colleen McCullough. The novel was released in 1977 and became an instant best seller.
The main theme of the novel is love and the consequences of love in different people's life.
Colleen McCullough has made New Zealand the background of her story and the Cleary family's rendezvous with love is the main subject matter.
Thorn Birds novel has taken its name from the birds of the same name that look for thorns the moment they are born. |
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And the moment they find it, they pierce their heart s with a thorn. In the novel, the Cleary family consists of Paddy, Fee, Frank and Meggie. Meggie and Frank visit Drogheda where their aunt Mary (Paddy's sister) has invited them. Meggie is enamored by Father Ralph de Bricassart, a young and ambitious priest. She goes to great length to find out whether he is willing to break his vows for her. However the love came to nothing and she later married another ranch worker Luke O'Neil. In between, a terrible truth was revealed which brought tragedy in the lives of all concerned. Frank was not Paddy's son, he was the illegitimate son of a married politician and Fee. Fee (Paddy's wife) had always preferred him to any of her other children. Frank was convicted of murder after he killed a person in a fight.
Anna Karenina interpreted love in its extremity, destroying herself in the process. How dark can be the passion of love? Healthcliffe and Charlotte Bronte has searched the answer for this question in Wuthering Heights making the readers realize in the end-Love is not darkness at all, it only shines bright with luminosity.
Famous love novels depict the trials and tribulations of the protagonists his or her love and the circumstantial problems which he or she encounters before attaining pure bliss. Love is rewarded but only after the protagonist learns to appreciate the value and power of love. But love in everybody's life does not have a happy ending. Some lose in love, some is left to search love throughout their lives. My Dear Valentine offers many more information on famous love novels, so do visit it.
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